Joseph Taylor Robinson

Joseph Taylor Robinson (26 August 1872-14 June 1937) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AR 6) from 4 March 1903 to 14 January 1913 (succeeding Stephen Brundidge Jr. and preceding Samuel M. Taylor), Governor of Arkansas from 16 January to 8 March 1913 (succeeding George Washington Donaghey and preceding William Kavanaugh Oldham), and a US Senator from Arkansas from 10 March 1913 to 14 July 1937 (succeeding William M. Kavanaugh and preceding John E. Miller.

Biography
Joseph Taylor Robinson was born in Lonoke, Arkansas in 1872. He served in the State Legislature from 1894 to 1896, and he then served in the US House of Representatives from 1903 to 1913. He was then elected to the position of Governor of Arkansas, and the legislature elected him to the US Senate to fill a vacancy. He would serve in this seat until his death in 1937, and he was a staunch supporter of Democratic Party president Woodrow Wilson due to their shared progressivism. In 1928, he was Al Smith's running mate during the presidential election. He passed Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal reforms through the Senate, and he died in office in 1937.